SJ_Zero @ SJ_Zero @lemmy.fbxl.net

I run the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Social, FBXL Lemmy, FBXL

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https://fortune.com/2022/04/01/citi-metaverse-economy-13-trillion-2030/

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I own a rift. Like many, mine is sitting in a box in my garage. If any of these people calling from multi trillion dollar valuations of the metaverse had ever actually bothered clamping one of these VR headsets to their head, they would have immediately realized how stupid they sounded.

Wtf are you subbed to?

The load of stuff you're not really interested in sort of feels like an important part of the formula to me.

It's like a reminder that the world doesn't revolve around you like algorithms tend to make us feel. It also means you see people you don't like being boring or even saying stuff you agree with which isn't useful for the algorithm.

One big reason I don't really want it to be too successful.

In my view, big tech was actually pretty ok until politicians and companies realized they were large influence markets and started messing with them. It doesn't matter left or right, at that point the platform is broken because you've got all kinds of special interests spending money to push their thing.

If it can be big enough to be fun but small enough to fly under the radar, mission accomplished.

If anyone was bothering to listen, we've discovered that big tech uses a lot of fraud to make themselves look bigger than they are, especially early on

The reality is that it probably won't accomplish anything at all, particularly for lemmy users whose fediverse is structured considerably differently than mastodon.

You don't tend to see people from that side of the fediverse over here.

Tech enthusiasts have always been the early adopters. They're the ones who see the potential for a new platform and migrate to it first. Recall that the internet itself was just a thing for nerds for the longest time.

Somebody has to be first. It isn't going to be people who are only going to follow, it isn't going to be people who are going to leave when they realize that none of their favorite people are on there. Going to be people who have some kind of vested interest in trying this new and interesting thing.

As for the relatively older age, I hate to say it but a lot of kids think that technology is consumption. It's a big problem. In a recent shocking employer survey, employers talking about the lack of tech skills among gen z. This isn't an isolated data point, either. There's a lot of data suggesting that kids are growing up as experts on TikTok and Facebook rather than fundamental skills that would let you go out and do something like run a website.

The narcissistic conspiracy theory is pretending that exploding-heads exists solely to mess with you personally, and that they just came to exist to mess with you and abuse the communities that only just came to exist about a month ago.

People who disagree with you exist. It's not some conspiracy theory meant to harm you personally.

That's a really good point -- you can model a process as an RC where there's a resistance and a capacitance. A major change to a process such as adding an enclosure that retains heat and reduces draft would change the process RC, so your PID settings would need to be different for optimal control.

I recall a video from one of the 3d printing youtubers that showed that an enclosure could allow plastic printer parts to warp, causing prints to fail. It was really a surprising result to me, since I was considering buying an enclosure for my tevo tornado (which is mostly metal, but not entirely especially after some printer upgrades I printed)

Exploding-heads was here years before any of you or the instances you're on. They were happily sitting there posting and discussing daily about the things that interest them. You might disagree with what they're talking about, but don't act like they're only doing it to spite you.

You redditors came into a space that existed for years before you ever even heard of it, act like you invented it, then act all outraged that there were already people here and their existence is a giant conspiracy theory meant to spite you personally.

You want to defederate from them? Go ahead. That's the right and power of each instance to choose who to associate with. But quit it with the narcissistic conspiracy theories. A lot of people were chased off of big tech before you, they didn't just stop existing -- they ended up somewhere and often that was the fediverse.

It isn't even like this is reddit where you have to deal with whatever reddit gives you. Anyone can spin up their own instance and federate from whoever they want or defederate from whoever they want or keep whatever posts they want or delete whatever posts they want.

The thing is, imo it's about control of others. You can own and operate your instance however you want, but what people really want is to dictate what others get to see and do.

"This is your final warning, please migrate to FOSS platforms"

Rather than make thread after thread after thread about it, just start an instance with blackjack and hookers and threads.net on your blocklist

You really need to just test on a piecemeal basis. It's a matter of what works with what, and sometimes even the devs don't know.

What I've found so far:

Lemmy uniquely grabs old posts from Lemmy, but most software is "here and now" so you won't see a history if you go somewhere until your instance is following it.

Mastodon can see Lemmy communities and users and you can DM people on mastodon from lemmy, but you can't follow Mastodon users on Lemmy because the paradigm is different.

Lotide communities can be followed and interacted with. I think the latest Lemmy has fixed federation in the other direction.

Friendica groups can be followed and interacted with. Users are the same as mastodon users

Peertube channels can be followed like communities and you can see, upvote, and comment on videos, but you can't post anything new -- your instance will let you, but it won't federate.

Kbin communities can be followed, be aware that kbin is in its early days so it has a lot of work on the back-end.

I was not able to federate with a.gru.ppe communities.

Hopefully this helps, and maybe others can post their discoveries. Decentralization is strength on the fediverse. The more things we can connect to, the less reliant we are on any one thing.

To do a lot of these, you put the community, magazine, or channel url into Lemmy search. It takes longer than you expect but if it's federating at all it'll show up on the search, then you can go and subscribe.

They're already on the fediverse. Tens of thousands of people on thousands of servers saying things that make libsoftiktok and gaysagainstgrooming look like woke hippies.

The thing is, unlike big tech which wants you to see things that piss you off because it drives engagement and will actively put you in that situation, for the most part people tend to stick together in groups. You'll get the odd troll looking for a thrill, but overall there isn't an algorithm doing the Jerry Springer thing so other than a cheap thrill there's no point to it.

Algorithms end up being really sneaky in that regard.

5 million mostly fake users? We could have 10 million in a heartbeat.

My blocklist is empty. I intend to keep it that way unless there's an actual imminent systemic threat.

But we're not stuck in here with them, they'd be stuck in here with us.

Hey! Thanks! Please let me know what you think if you think of it!

So it's a series of essays about things I think are going to be important.

I start off with a reminder that he needs to question everything and everyone including or especially me.

Then I start talking about some basics because, before you start talking about different things that are a little lessons that will make your life a little bit better, you need to be talking about the basics of the big stuff, stuff like staying safe and exercising self-control and so on and so forth.

I told some stories about the history of our family and how those lessons are going to be important throughout his life. The story of his world war 2 veteran great grandfather is shockingly relevant today.

I talk about how to perform miracles -- not literal religious things, but there are lots of goals that people have that they would like to accomplish, and they just find that they can't. Usually, it's relatively straightforward to do some pretty amazing things; you just need to know how, so I talk a lot about how to do that.

And then the counterpoint to that, I talk about the fact that failure is an option, and that it sucks, that you can learn from it, but you'd really prefer not to. I talk about grit and the need to push through the hard times in your life. I talk about an existential crisis that I once had and the lessons that I learned.

Then come two of the most core essays in the book: one that talks about thinking ahead and details the two lives you could live if you make the right decisions or if you make the wrong decisions. I also tell him that he needs to go out and build something, and I get into quite a bit of detail about what that means.

Then I talk about a couple of the popular political movements of the day, and I talk about how I agree with the fundamental ideas, but that you can't just let someone lead you around and you have to think for yourself.

I talk about the concept of success since how you define what success is has a fundamental effect on your outcome. I have a small crash course on economics because I think that understanding that is key to understanding the world we live in right now.

I talk about change and the fact that we need to embrace it and the sort of changes that I predict will happen over the next generation. I talk about what to do when you make a mistake in the context of a really dumb mistake that I made at the same time that I was writing the essay.

I talk about the internet a lot, and in particular, the fact that big companies want you to think that the internet is your friend when it isn't -- especially not their websites (haha relevant in the past 30 days!).

I then keep going by talking about shame and guilt and the fact that those negative emotions are something that sometimes you need to embrace because they are telling you something about the way you're behaving.

Then I have a chapter all about attraction and meeting men or women. I didn't really know whether I was going to have a son or a daughter when I wrote that one, so I tried to make it applicable to both. Unlike a lot of attraction materials, this would be in the context of a father trying to explain the world to his son. So, rather than just getting out there and meeting women, I talk a lot about the things that I've discovered in terms of pitfalls and dangers.

I close out the book by talking about how ultimately nobody owes him anything, not his parents, not the government, not the church, not society. And I give some advice for strategies on how to deal with that fact.

This is a really broad overview, half the fun of each chapter is delving into the different stories about the earth and the human race and my family and myself.

One of the interesting things about writing it is that it really changed my view of the world and helped me realize how important it would be to take the time raising my son (and so I went out and did it).

I've been pretty happy with the feedback I've gotten, people enjoy the book. It's just not a focus group market tested premise so it's tough getting someone to pick it up the first time.